The 1983-84 Academic Excellence Program (AEP) was a new Dade County Public Schools (Florida) program providing enrichment curriculum for above average kindergarten through sixth grade students at 24 district schools. Instructional activities focused on developing critical thinking, higher level cognitives processes, creative problem solving, and research methodology skills. Program delivery included a variety of models (full time, after school, and pull-out). The evaluation focused on the AEP program development and implementation. Data collection activities involved examining student participation rosters, on-site observations, parent, student, administrator, and teacher questionnaires, and program personnel interviews. Results indicated that most program activities followed program proposal specifications and that the program was perceived favorably. Recommendations included: (1) more frequent progress information to parents; (2) equitable compensation to teachers in after school programs; (3) additional inservice training for AEP instuctional staff; (4) establishing district level AEP goals and objectives which provide some latitude at the school level; (5) better parent orientation; and (6) scheduling AEP programs during regular school hours. Appendices contain participant roster forms and the five evaluation questionnaires. (BS)